Deep Freeze is a system-level program that prevents user changes from "taking hold" and reconfiguring or possibly damaging a computer. In CPS, schools should use the CPS enterprise version of Deep Freeze, available free from ITS. If you haven't yet read the Deep Freeze Overview please take a look at that before continuing with this Deep Freeze details page.
Getting Started
For Deep Freeze to be installed and work in your school, the CPS ITS department must consider you a Deep Freeze school and activate several options affected by that. The first step in getting Deep Freeze going is therefore to put in a request with ITS. We can break that down:
Check whether your school is already activated! Maybe somebody did that before you arrived.
Decide where you want the console to be installed.
Call it in to the regular Help Desk number, 3-EXCL; just tell them you would like to get Deep Freeze for your school. They will ask for the usual contact info and so on, and additionally may ask where you want the console, or what size the Thaw Space should be and whether you generally make use of Drive Letter T: for some purpose currently.
You can expect confirmation by email, but at the same time you can keep an eye on the progress yourself by repeating the kind of check you made in step 1, and watch for the links to "go live".
Deep Freeze page on your Distribution Server (ADM01) website
Your school's Distribution Server (or "ADM01 Server" or "Compliance Page Server") web services include a page "Getting Started With Deep Freeze". In a web browser, you can reach this Deep Freeze page from any part of the Distribution Server site by clicking on the fourth heptagon (7-sided) button in the right-hand column.
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Looking more closely at the central portion of that page, you can see four numbered links (and their descriptions). At some schools, only link #1 (the manual) will be a live link, and the others will be names that are not working as live links. At other schools, all four links will be live. This difference corresponds to whether or not ITS considers a school to be a Deep Freeze activated school.
This example shows all four links as live, thus the school is considered a Deep Freeze school. If your latter three links are inactive, and you put in a request to get Deep Freeze, you can monitor this page and watch for the links to go live as a signal that your request has been acted on. (You will still need some instructions and a school-specific password, probably coming in email.)
Deep Freeze
Deep Freeze is a system-level program that prevents user changes from "taking hold" and reconfiguring or possibly damaging a computer. In CPS, schools should use the CPS enterprise version of Deep Freeze, available free from ITS. If you haven't yet read the Deep Freeze Overview please take a look at that before continuing with this Deep Freeze details page.
Getting Started
For Deep Freeze to be installed and work in your school, the CPS ITS department must consider you a Deep Freeze school and activate several options affected by that. The first step in getting Deep Freeze going is therefore to put in a request with ITS. We can break that down:Deep Freeze page on your Distribution Server (ADM01) website
Your school's Distribution Server (or "ADM01 Server" or "Compliance Page Server") web services include a page "Getting Started With Deep Freeze". In a web browser, you can reach this Deep Freeze page from any part of the Distribution Server site by clicking on the fourth heptagon (7-sided) button in the right-hand column.
(Click image for full size.)
Looking more closely at the central portion of that page, you can see four numbered links (and their descriptions). At some schools, only link #1 (the manual) will be a live link, and the others will be names that are not working as live links. At other schools, all four links will be live. This difference corresponds to whether or not ITS considers a school to be a Deep Freeze activated school.
This example shows all four links as live, thus the school is considered a Deep Freeze school. If your latter three links are inactive, and you put in a request to get Deep Freeze, you can monitor this page and watch for the links to go live as a signal that your request has been acted on. (You will still need some instructions and a school-specific password, probably coming in email.)
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